Seneca Weintraut

Fried bacon. Roux made from white flour and bacon fat. Silver
fork scraping against a cast-iron skillet. Milk passing through a
slotted wooden spoon. Salt, cracked pepper to taste. Hard-boiled
egg, the yellow of the yolk. The bird-shit color of the burnt yolk.
Ash-gray on golden crust, flecks of black. White crockery with a
blue circle around the rim.